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When the first after the Brexit UK-EU summit that takes place in London today, the British Minister for the Constitution and the European Union relationships, Nick Thomas Symond, said that Britain will be “ruthlessly pragmatic”. Most British do not consider much ruthless pragmatism of all kinds of a Labor government under the direction of a European Prime Minister who demanded a second Brexit referendum. British citizens are transferred with Brussels via food standards, fishing rights, defense and energy in today's “whirring summit” increasingly convergence with Brussels.
When Great Britain navigated its future after Brexit, Chatham House recommended that Great Britain should link its CO2 market to the EU emission trade system (ETS). It quoted a letter signed by more than 50 companies and corporate groups that demanded the convergence of carbon prices between Great Britain and the EU that “curb the costs for consumers”. CO2 prices in Great Britain are currently trading around 10 US dollars per ton in the British program than in the EU. The research institute sees this as a question of priority to be excluded from the Bloc mechanism (carbon border adaptation mechanism) -a tax based on the carbon content of imported goods -that would initially apply to imports of cement, iron and steel, aluminum, fertilizer, electricity and hydrogen.
According to Chris Ayett, Research Fellow at Chatham House, it will be expensive for the British industry and will suffocate the investments in the energy sector. “Unfortunately, Mr. Aylett has exactly backwards. Joining the EU EUS can only mean that Great Britain, like the EU, passes on to further industrialization and an energy sector that is even less suitable for the purpose than it is.
The EU ETS: a bureaucratic burden, no trading solution
The EU is intended to implement the world's first tax on the carbon content of imported goods from January 1, 2026. The apparent purpose of this tariff is to prevent European industry from being undermined by cheaper goods that have undermined in countries that do not share the EU obsession with climate change and therefore have not accepted its draconian climate rules.
An early analysis of the effects of the EU -Eets, when it was announced for the first time, showed that Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, India and China are strongest by the CBAM. The basic countries (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) all expressed the “serious concern” with the EU CBAM plan when it was announced for the first time and warned of potential WTO challenges or retaliation tariffs.
The complexity of the plan designed by Brussels ensures that the EU exporters have their work cut out. Export companies must document detailed carbon audits about their emissions that would calculate the percentage of emissions that are already calculated by carbon taxes elsewhere (domestic imports that are in the manufacture of exports). If these complex and expensive analyzes go beyond the compliance skills of companies, especially for small and medium-sized companies, the EG will unilaterally set up carbon tariffs based on the dirty 10% of the European manufacturers of the same well-being.
The linking of the British ETS with the EU would take out the British exporters of CBAM levies and thus relieve trade barriers. The CBAM risk that violates the world trade organization (WTO) of non-discrimination and national treatment. By contributing to the EUet again, it is involved in disputes with its trading partners. The United Kingdom will risk its recently concluded trade agreements with India and the USA. These offers signal a pivot point for living markets. Why in Great Britain to a below -average EU – a falling ship – chains on a below -average EU if it can continue to sail into global possibilities?
The EU originally announced its carbon tariff program in 2021 when it seemed that there was a broad transatlantic alliance to build a “climate club” that combines the markets of the United States under the climate-boot bid administration and Europe, together with narrow allies such as Great Britain and Canada. The problem of the “free drivers” – especially developing countries outside of the OECD – would determine the climate club an incentive structure that punishes the nations that did not play according to the climate rules of “decarbonization” and “Net zero by 2050”.
This alliance was recorded by the Trump administration, which shares little enthusiasm for the Green Crusade of the EU and left the Parisian agreement. The US sales representative recently said that “the Cobam mechanism of the EU (carbon border adaptation mechanism) imposes costly review measures and the advantage of US exporters in the EU market with high emissions, namely China, could reduce”.
The United Kingdom plunges access to the EU -Eets into a bureaucratic swamp. The EUETs were confronted with criticism of their exceptions and free allowances for certain industries, especially for those with strong lobbies in Brussels. For example, the steel sector – although it is an important source for CO2 emissions, which were demonized by the climate -freezer – was shielded from tightening the ETS. According to an analyst, the free emission allowances of the EU for preferred producers make a “terribly complex, legally questionable and politically explosive instrument”.
The establishment of the IT would subject the British companies of the EU supervisory authority, possibly, including the supervision of the European Court of Justice -a red line for Brexit voters and the increasingly popular reform -uk party. Why give up this sovereignty for border trade when the CBAM only affects an estimated 3% of the EU imports? In addition, the economic discomfort of the EU – stagnant growth, high energy costs and industrial withdrawal – makes the ETS link a loss. The tying of the United Kingdom with this below -average block would suppress any hope of the economic revival of Britain.
The energy transfer: a stupid search against economic reality
The case of Chatham House that Great Britain can connect the EU -E -ETS depend on the narrative “Energy Transition” and shows Net Zero as an economic and moral imperative by 2050. This is a deception because both the conservatives and the reform -uk parties have explained. In view of the global energy, the net zero goal is not only unreachable, but also undesirable. Even Tony Blair believed that the attempt to reach Net zero by 2050 was “doomed to fail”, even though he has now withdrawn these strays from the approved climate count.
The EU Climate Club is taking a world separation towards decarbonization, but most nations (now including the USA) prioritize economic growth, which is reinforced by fossil fuels. Your own energy transfer in the UK has stalled. According to a recently published report by the Renewable Energy Foundation, Great Britain spent around £ 220 (in 2024 prizes) for subsidies for renewable energies. The annual subsidy costs are currently 25.8 billion GBP per year and now comprise about 40% of the total costs for power supply in Great Britain.
In a recent interview, the independent energy consultant Kathryn Porter said that people were “sold a fairy tale about renewable energies that make their bills cheaper”. Depending on the natural gas, the country would also have £ 220 billion in the high prices caused by the outbreak of the Ukraine secretary, and corresponds to £ 8,000 per household. Without the drive for decarbonization and so -called “cheap renewable energies”, the cost of the power supply in Great Britain would now be 40% less.
The net obsession in ET and CBAM embodies the EU's obsession with the energy consumption to the detriment of economic vitality. Germany's de -industrialization, with companies like BASF that move to Asia, illustrates this. Post-Brexit UK cannot afford to inflict this wound yourself. Its industrial core country – steel in Port Talbot, production in the Midlands – are already in ruins. The criticism of Reform UK to Net Zero as a “economic suicide” swings here: Why do you prioritize a green Mirage that captivates the EU -CO2 prices that increase production costs when global competitors such as the USA, India and China take energy levels?
Conclusion: a pragmatic rejection of the European climate conservation
The British path to Brexit should indeed be a ruthless pragmatism-free of EU restrictions and open to global possibilities. The accession to the EU -ETs, as Chatham House suggests, would reverse this progress and combine the United Kingdom to a below -average EU and an ideological net zero agenda. Great Britain has to reject the gold of this fool and take up its own course, which is driven by realism, not for green dreams. Closer economic relationships with the economies of the United States, India and the APEC, not the falling EU climate club, offer a pragmatic path for a prospering future.
The EU CBAM, far from trading needs, is a protectionist gambit that faces each other with WTO challenges and global counter -reactions. The Great Britain's trade trade transactions with the USA and India as well as potential APEC partnerships offer access to growing markets that are relieved by climate gamers. The energy transfer, a quixotic strut to restrict energy consumption, corresponds to the global dependence on fossil fuels, which now agree to Trump.
Far from securing the economic advantage, the tying of Great Britain would captivate the EU -TS on a declining economic block, undermine its newly discovered merchant economy and are committed to an unreachable and undesirable “Net zero by 2050” agenda that prioritizes the ideological conformity before prosperity. The pragmatic path of Great Britain lies in the rejection of the European Climate Club and the use of global trading opportunities that are operated by realistic energy policy.
This article was first published in the daily skeptic
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/19/the-folly-of-stars-sUmit-not-so-much-lutheless-proagmatic-as-cravenly-sycophantic/
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